Dallas 1985. Electrician and sometimes rodeo bull rider Ron Woodroof
lives hard, which includes heavy smoking, drinking, drug use (primarily
cocaine) and casual sex. He is racist and homophobic. While in the
hospital on a work related injury, the doctors discover and inform him
that he is HIV+, and that he will most-likely die within thirty days.
Ron is initially in angry denial that he would have a disease that only
"faggots" have, but upon quick reflection comes to the realization that
the diagnosis is probably true. He begins to read whatever research is
available about the disease, which at this time seems to be most
effectively treated by the drug AZT. AZT, however, is only in the
clinical trials stage within the US. Incredulous that he, as a dying
man, cannot pay for any drug which may save or at least prolong his
life, he goes searching for it by whatever means possible. It eventually
leads him to Mexico and a "Dr." Vass, an American physician whose
license was revoked in the ... Written by
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